Overview

 

Aims and Scope

Management is chiefly about the deliberate coordination and direction of activities and resources in which effectiveness matters, and EMR aims to advance not only the understanding of management practices, but also their deliberate shaping and design. This improvement-oriented approach can be applied to any setting (private or public, business or voluntary, intra- or inter-organizational, national or international) and EMR welcomes studies in all of them.

EMR is a general management journal. It is concerned with general questions regarding the governance, organization, and behaviour of entities, and of their relationship with participants, counterparts, competitors, and contexts. Hence, it is receptive to research across a broad range of research areas, signalled in the editorial structure section, but it is not the sum of specialized contributions: it is distinctively interested in linking; linking specialized domains to each other and to general management questions; and linking management studies to the social sciences where they belong. This positioning is signalled and implemented by Editors with broad cross-area knowledge, and by Consulting Editors with deep knowledge of the relationship between management and economics, sociology, law, history, philosophy, and design sciences.

Europe is constituted by a differentiated and integrated set of national and supra-national institutions, with a millenary heritage. EMR seeks to leverage this richness by cultivating interest in diversity, multilateralism, comparative analysis, and historical context, in an outreaching spirit. EMR welcomes contributions from across the world, contributing to the development of effective and equitable management theories and practices of global interest.

EMR values rigorous, analytic, intersubjectively testable research, illuminated by openness and critical mindedness and justified by relevance of content. The importance attributed to method is signalled by our ‘Methodology Matters’ dedicated section. We acknowledge that there is a plurality of valuable research designs and strategies, with their own specific canons of rigour, and we welcome studies conforming to any of them - no matter whether data are quantitative or qualitative. EMR is also open to diverse formats, notably works ranging from purely theoretical to entirely empirical. We publish full articles and shorter ‘Points & Dialogues’, along with literature reviews.

For the sake of both fairness and efficiency, the EMR editorial approach is inspired by a logic of co-investment by authors and reviewers, and governed by editors, in which we endeavour to bring to publication manuscripts that passed the pre-review evaluation stage and the first review round.  

 

Abstracting and Indexing Information

 

  • ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest)
  • ArticleFirst (OCLC)
  • Business Premium Collection (ProQuest)
  • Business Source Complete (EBSCO Publishing)
  • Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics)
  • Electronic Collections Online (OCLC)
  • Proquest Business Collection (ProQuest)
  • ProQuest Central (ProQuest)
  • ProQuest Politics Collection (ProQuest)
  • ProQuest Sociology Collection (ProQuest)
  • SCOPUS (Elsevier)
  • Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest)
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
  • TOC Premier (EBSCO Publishing)
  • Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)